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DEATHS.
The total number of Wimbledon residents who died during
1949 was 754, giving a death-rate of 12.92 per thousand of the
population as compared with 11.56 per thousand for 1948. The
Registrar-General has, for the first time since 1940, issued an area
comparability factor for 1949, for the purpose of securing comparability
between local death-rates. As a result of the use of this
factor, the corrected death-rate for Wimbledon for the year 1949 is
10.72 per thousand, compared with a rate of 11.7 for England and
Wales.
The number of Wimbledon residents who died outside the Borough
during 1949 was 278, while 255 persons not normally resident in
Wimbledon died in institutions, etc. in the Borough.
As in previous years the following diseases were responsible for
over half the total deaths:—
Percentage
of total deaths
Diseases of the heart and circulatory system ... 47%
Cancer 18%
Diseases of the respiratory system11%
Total 76%
There were three deaths from notifiable infectious diseases during
1949 — one child aged 10 months died from whooping cough, and
two children, aged six and seven years respectively, died from acute
poliomyelitis. In addition, one child aged 7 months died from
infective gastro-enteritis.